Like if somehow the minor parties (Act, Greens, NZF, the cult party, TOP, etc) got enough votes and then also decided to join against both major parties? It would be a total mishmash and would never happen but what do you think would happen if we hopped into bizzarro world?
I can’t see it ever working. Greens want to avert climate chage and bring in a wealth tax. Act wants to remove almost all regulation and government intervention.
Well, really it’s just Act that I can’t see participating. I think the others have enough common ground to make it work.
I suspect Winston would fight any wealth tax proposal tooth and nail, especially considering his voting base is mostly retired.
TBH I can’t see Labour supporting it either, so I’m expecting that Greens don’t actually think they can get it in. If they were trying to form a coalition with NZF I think they could find common ground, but a wealth tax would not be where they gel. Winnie is the master of pragmatism though, so he would find a way to get through some policies, but probably I would think his main efforts would be negotiating to not do certain things, and he’d consider that a success.
Ultimately I think they would reach an agreement that gets Winnie some power again, because he loves it.
Half of Labour’s MPs are landlords, that’s why.
I don’t think much would get done, because Act and Greens have very little common ground policy-wise or even in their objectives.
So we’d still be paying to have a government but it would just sit there arguing endlessly over legislation.
We’d be more likely to see a grand coalition than this scenario I think.
Absolutely. Labour and National are both centrist governments, and historically have crossed over each other on various issues, most notably National raising benefits under Key. They have far more in common than Act does with anyone on the left.
I’d love to see it but it would require both Labour and National to be fewer than 30 seats each (to be less than half of house between them). But that could still allow one of them + partner party. So really, fewer than 20 seats each and ~5-8 parties in parliament.
